Book-Review:Age Of Azmoq: The Valantian Imperium

The first glimpse:

The Book Age Of Azmoq is a story of a fantasy world narrated in a creative style by the author Rajamayyoor Sharma. The writer has taken quite a different take weaving the characters; the scenic beauty, the supernatural weapons and most importantly combat fighting sequence during a war ingeniously.

Age Of Azmoq

Book Cover:

The book cover is designed attractively using just perfect combinations of colors. The picture of a town raised on a circular platform gels perfectly with the author’s creativity of a fantasy world.

About the Author:

Rajamayyoor Sharma is a first-time author, who as far away from the writing world before this book series took hold in his mind. He is a management consultant, with a degree in engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from IIM Bangalore in India. He currently lives in Bangalore with wife, son and parents. He loves to spend his spare time reading anything with a story, watching movies with his wife and playing games with his son.

The Plot:

The story starts with the introduction of the fantasy village, Villasboro, isolated from the outside world well shielded and protected amidst natural beauty. The people of Villasboro enjoys longevity of lifespan of 130 – 140 years, the people rarely fall ill and are called young at an age of 70. What aspects make it unique from the others and why it has no connection with the outside world is worth reading.

A unique reserve of Azmoq metal whose supernatural powers can control and conquer anything is deep buried in the village. This coveted metal is molded to transform into weapons, which is capable of holding myriad powers. The author’s fantasy world is a combination of 5 continents and 7 oceans. Valantian Imperium, a group of powerful people controlling the revolutions across the world to save their power and to set the balance everywhere, guards all these.

The competition among the super powers to conquer the High Seat and ultimately the metal reserve leads them to this village. There are hallucinations, mind reading and controlling, combat fighting, great weaponry and much more to know as the plot unfolds.

Things that worked for me:

The map of Villasboro, the fantasy village, assists in understanding its geographical aspects clearly.

The names of the some of the characters and the weapons are extracted from Ramayana and Mahabharata.

The explanations of the war scenes are truly an appreciable work by Rajamayyoor Sharma.

Things that didn’t work for me:

The book seems a bit draggy and few explanations are repetitive and monotonous.

Some portions of the story, which includes the mind reading part is explained very elaborately, could have wrapped up in short.

The story lags to keep the readers connected till the end.

Final note:

The story deciphers with perfection the imaginative aspect of the writer and putting down in words creatively is the real strength of the book.

The book is a mix bag of bravery, valor, war, revolutions, scenic beauty and many more supernatural things. It can no doubt interest to someone who loves the fictitious world full of weapons and wars.

Book details:

Name: Age Of Azmoq: The Valantian Imperium

Author: Rajamayyoor Sharma

Genre:Fiction

ISBN:978-93-5291-777-8

My Rating:3/5

The above review is original and is my honest opinion. Thank you Blogadda for sending me a copy to review.

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@ Meenal